Subject: Re: Recommend SCSI for PC164SX
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: port-alpha
Date: 09/23/2001 12:03:51
In message <20010923.164143.63225289.he@uninett.no>, Havard Eidnes writes:
>Finding a new SCSI card that is supported by SRM is probably going to
>be difficult.  First off, this depends on the SRM variant you're
>using; my information is for an Alpha PC164.  For the NCR/Symbios
>cards, you will probably need an original plain 810, not 810a, and
>that's a narrow card.  For the Qlogic, you also apparently need
>hardware which is considered slightly "historic" at this point --
>Qlogic 1020, again a narrow card.  I have a Qlogic 1040B in mine, and
>SRM does not recognize it as a bootable device.

There are rumors that *some* Symbios 875 cards work.  It appears that the
TekRam DC390F revision 2 cards worked, and the revision 3 cards don't.

Unfortunately, no one has revision 2 cards anymore.

-s